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nr j ' ^ ? y ' ? ? s- ;*>>? -J";/"' ^ . 7 U > ' w?^ypw>?????^ VOLUME XXI. CAMDKN, S. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 2;>. 15U0. NO. 10. The < citerplllar~An Caster Emblem* Written for The Wuhington SUr by M*ri?lU M. Andrew*. Who crawls ulong so slowly, I/ike ii worm down in tlie grass, With lots of little stumpy legs? We see them as they para? 80 clumsy and so humble, So lfceuvy and so slow, Wearing a prickly, fuzzy coat, A homely thing, 1 know. > lie's a common caterpillar, llut one day he will be A very different sort of thing As you, perhaps, shall see, : ' (For the poor caternillats. Which silly folks despise, Go through a change most wonderful, And turn to butterflies!) lie makes a silken blanket, Or a weather-proof small house, And sleeps awhile within it As still as any mouse. And while he rests so quietly His handsome wings grow out; One day before you know it He is flying all about! He float* tc flowT-T And high up in the sky; He circles with his fellows, A radiant butterfly. No longer crawling, creeping, Like common, earthly things, lJut sporting in the sunshine, On a glorious pair of wings. And priests and poets tell us Koine day we too shall Imj Changed into for ma more beautiful Than here on earth we see; That, a nobler life is in us, As in the butterflies, And some glorious. Easter morning We shall moun t up to the skies! how mtimtTQ mtmmm "And 'you don't Just love Paster?" "Don't know anything 'bout Easter, 'cept It's a meetin' an* you have to Bit perflckly still an' can't speak a word. Haven't ever seen a Easter an' don't know where they keeps 'em." - "Oh, my!" Lina gazed at her small companion as if she had HUddenly changed from a very nice little play mate into a creature from out the unknown. "Oh, my!" Little Playmate winced at this. "Well, you may 'Oh, my!' all you want to, I'm not to blame. If my papa we.ro rloh, llko yours, I'd have Easter*, too. Maybe I'd have one every day!1' "Oh, my!" ILlttlo Playmato began sto look cross, and Boomed on the point of springing up and running away? which waa her usual wanner of let ting Lina know that she was dis pleased. But this time Lina leaned over and took both small brown bands in hers, while into her gentle eyes and over her dear face there came such a look of love and pity that Little Playmate, Hannah, stayed. "S'pose we talk 'bout Easter," she said, still holding the sun-brown hands. "You know "bout Jesus, the Saviour?" Little Playmate nodded her bare head eagerly. Yes; she knew all about Him. "How He came a* a little baby?* such a wee baby and so sweet and dear; how He grew up to be a boy and then on, up into a man?' asked Una. - Again the little bare head nodded. "How Ho loved the flowera?'spe cially lilies, white lilies?and held gltttl* children on His lap; an' cured more sick people 'n any doctor ever THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD By \V Holmtn Hunt. ,{? * y < ?<"Jr> is_ ? ? -i . could, and?and cured a littlo girl after she was truly dead. And a young man, too. Ob, and another man?Lazarus, his name was. That makes three. And how He knew that the wicked people, who didn't lov6 Him, were planning to kill Him; but He wanted to comfort Ills?His dis dlsteeples?" "What's that?"-. burled. And aho found Illm! Yea; kh?* did?or, He found her. I think it was that way. And she was so glad! Wouldu't you be ^lad lf-?-lf you'd been Mary?" Little Playmate'* eyos grew big. "Pretty likely I would," she said. "Well, they called that day Easter, VauBo Easter moans to rise. And Jesua did rise, you seo. And 'causo He kept one promise and rose, by HJpfijf, after lie'd been umuIo -quits* dead by the wicked people, that shows how He can koep His other promise and raise us up, too, and take us to Heaven after we die. "So, 'cause it means such lovely things to everybody, peoples bogan thinking a lot 'bout Easter. An' they fill the churches with flowerB. An' they sing bee-u-tlful BongB 'bout 'He is risen,' and such. And the minis-' tors preach 'bout how good It all is for'^11 of us. And everybody wears now, pretty clothes? "Oh, my!" Bald Little Playmate, looking down at hor shabby skirts and bare llttlo foet. "And everybody sends pretty col ored eggs 'round to folks they like. Somo little children Bay, 'Christ Is risen!' to their mamma and papa when they seo them flrBt that morn ing. Then tho mamma and papa kIhb them and Kay, 'Ho is risen, in deed!' Oh, it's lovely! And wo give Easter presents?cards and books and candles!" "Oh, my!" said Little Playmate. JuBt then the man came after Lina, and when Bhe had reached her moth er's room she sat down upon tho foot stool besido her and together they talked it all over. And together they planned?Lina and her dear mftmma. The outcome of the planning was this: The very next day Lina wont I to Llttlo Playmate's log cabin with a very large parcel, which she gave fo Llttlo Playmate's mother. I "Won't you please take It, Mrs. I ^Grimes?." she said, "take It for Han- I nah to wear Easter Sunday? You Boe, mamma's getting better, and UnrJo r.*hc is r? TfuVuBvur, Is coming up to bo hero over Easter with us. And we're going to have an Easter In the boarding house? 'c&uso mamma's getting well and everybody's so glad. "Uncle Henry's going to preach 'bout how Jesus rose from tho dead. And there'll be flowers. And tw6 ladles and the rest of us all will sing. So we'll have a real Easter, And mamma's written a letter to you? it's inside the parcel?Inviting you and Hannah and all the rest to come over and help make our Easter church that we're going to have in the house." "Oh, my!" said-fcittie Playmate. "And 'cause 'twas fifteen hundred years ago that people began to wear something new for Easter, mamma al ways glveB me something now to wear then. So she let me bring somo of my new things over to Hannah. They're real pretty; I think you'll like them." "Oh, my, my!"-ga8ped Little Play mate. 0 "And in tho letter mamma asks' you to let her divide tho new thlng^v that Aunt Helen has sent her with MOSQUE OF OMAR, JERUSALEM. ,, , "That was twelve men and other folks who walked 'round with Him and?and loved Him very much. All becept Judas. He sold Jesus and let Him be killed?crucified on a crotw*. 'tween two thieves, on two Other crosses.' "Yet," said Little Playmate. "I know all 'bout that time. My mother, she used to tell us stories once In a while, but she don't like to bother 'bout stories an' such like since things has gone bad. It's orful V have things go bad on a farm, up In th' mountains, 'way from everybody." "I a'pose It Is," said Lina. "Ob, my!" said Little Playmate. "Oh, my*" 1 "Well,* said Lina, "let's go on talk ing 'bout Easter. It's nice to talk 'bout Easter, Isn't It?" * . The two children smiled into each other's faces and cuddled closely to* gether. "You see," said Lina, "they called Jesus the Saviour, 'cauae Hp came to ?avo people from being'bad and wicked. And He came to save them from dying forever?just going on staying dead always, 70a know. Bo He told Hit?-HU dleteeples, you re member?" Little PUjmtU nodded. "Told them that He wai going to b? ktltod, bat thit H*'d come gilt* again, In fbfM dan?Just la three days, early in the morningfc?.-^ig "Bat after He'd bMft killed and bnrted up to a tomb, why, they Jnst went to feeling bad and not to look ing for that third morning to come. All of 'em beeept Mary. She kind o' hoped. 80 she went early?oh, very mm\ It the plate where lie'd be you. For she doesn't need them nil. And she'll send Peter over with the buckboard to bring you all over to , our Easter churcli-ln-the-house. Then she wants you all to stay to dinner. We're going to have the loveliest dinner!" Mrs, Grimes' eyes were full. "It't a bit of brightness," she said. "Things seem different since your mamma came up here. Life is more ?more humanlike. 'Tisn't so much as If we were Just beasts of burden and nothing more. Tell your mamma that the coming of Easter makes us glad once more, because somebodj Boems to care to h^ve us glad." "Oh, my!" said Little Playmate, ul guess it does make us glad!"? Christian Advocate. - How Eaitfr is Reckoned. The Christian festival of Easter corresponds to the Pascha, or Pass over. or the Jewish faith. Easter Day (ffom which the rest or religious HlOTitlanfoASU Is recorded) Is In variably the first Sunday succeeding tho fourteenth day of the calendar *?oon which (fourlesnth day) fall^ on or noxt after the twenty-first of Mirefc. If tho fourteenth day should be Sunday, Esstsr Day would bo the Sunday following. Only twice Auriftt tha post docadt has faster been later than April II. Throughout tho last oloroa years, With o tingle exception, Easter has fallen in April. In HOI the date was March 10. C Profeeeor Leachettsky, the eminent pianist, still teaches *l his home In " to "' SOUTH CAROLINA AFFAIRS The Cream of News Items Gathered From AU Over Soutk Caroline end Boiled Down. OreenBboro is Selected. The interstate convention of the Young Men's Christian Association, iu Anderson, ho fur as (lie business sesHions are concerned, cam? to u close Saturday night when the nomi nating committee presented its re port at the conclusion of the ad dresses. The recommendations weiw accepted 'without discussion, and were as follows: President, II. 1* Erckman, Charleston; ttret vice pres ident, R. C. Norileet, Winston-Salem, third vice president, W. H, Osborne, Anderson; fourth vie*) president, II. K. Havenell, Spartanburg recording secretary, Henry Johnson, Clemsou College. Gov. M. F. Anfcl was tlin chief s|>eaker, his subject heiu^' '? Wanted, Young Men.'*' lie paid a high tri? bute to. the association and to An derson, Tho largest crowd of th? convention heard him. Mr. Solrlichtei of Charlotte followed (Governor Ansel with an illustrated lecture on tlif work that is being done in the in iliSSt rial u6pfll"t iflt ui . Greensboro was decided upon av the place for holding' the next con vention. Many Claimants to Insurance. Women in Lexington, S. C., Au gusta, (Ja., and Jacksonville, Kla., all claiming to be widows of James R, Herbert, an engineer killed on the Southern Railway two years ago at Trenton, S. C., ijiy claim to Her bert 'g insurance of $.1,000 in the Brotherhood of Locomotive Kugineerf and the latter, brothers and sister* of Herbert in Augusta aU on. nounce their intention of claiming the money _ (Jcorjre If. JJBuWj. (\;ir.r.*.fcy,-i, attorney for the brotherhood in' South (arolitui, says (hat it bavin;* been held to be good law that rccovi cry in one State, is not bar to recov ery in another, the national presi dent of the brotherhood, \V. K, Fut ch<*r of Cleveland. Ohio, is enough coneerued about the situation to take up (lie matter personally and will come South shortly to consult with counsel in Columbia and Augusta. ! South Carolina's Mascot. ; ^ The question of what shall be IIig South ( arolina's moscot is being "Ws cussed with considerable interest in South Carolina. That every one ha* a particular hobby is evident, for scarcely any two seem to have decid ed 011 the same thing. Idea sgo from pet rats to raccoonr', and a good Charlestonian saysr be will be glad to give the big ship his pet bull terrier, a beautiful little ani mal that knows how to growl. An other suggested a South African monkey, and still another a Maltese fat. There is 110 doubt but that any jumber of goats can be gotten, but it appears that roosters, geese and rabbits are in the lead. Mad Dogs in. Chester. Aroused by the mad dog scare of a few days ago the city council at the monthly meeting in Chester pass ed an ordinance giving th? police authority to shoot any dog that they suspect has been bitten by a mad do<r. A few da>g ago, when Mr. A. J. Steinkuler, who is now in Columbia, taking the Pasteur treatment, was bitten, several dogs were also bitten^ and in a number of instances the owners of these canies were extreme ly unwilling for their pets to be slain, resulting in the passing of the ordinance. Palmetto Fronds. Mrs. \\ iley Randolph, a society la dy of Boston, who is spending the winter in Aiken, acted as her jockey in a race in Aiken. She won second place. The barn of J. H. Cope nt Cope's was destroyed by fire. I.oss $1,500. The battleship Texas at the Char lest011 navy yard is lo be consigned to the junk pile. The old vessel has been declared obsolete and unfit for service. The Lyric moving picture theatre in Greenwood was destroyed by Are. Tlio board of trade of Greenville ia conducting a membership con test. R. A. Richev, who was convicted in Abbeville t>f statutory rape and sentenced to 14 years, is critically ill. 2 A pair of iron gray mules sold at Fort Mill ftr $1,000. M?s- Will Hillings, of Union, who was shot by her husband last Sat urday mornins, may recover. James H. Taylor, land commis sioner of South Carolina*-died at hi* home in Greenville. He was a Con. federate veteran. The Mansion House in Greenville, will no longer be used as a hotel. The. building will be remodeled made into stores and offices, IwTTami Mr Doc. Courtney, a young wbltt mnn Miss B4W? Endow, a daughter *f the n perintendsnt of the Orange #?tton mills, alto is missing. A warrant has been sowrn out before C. P. Brtm "ft4*1?1*' ohlu*in$ Courtney with abdnotion. The warrant was ssa.~?&; szx s BAD WRECK IN IOWA. Forty-Three Instantly Killed in Wreck. Mai'bhttJItown, Iowa, Special.?A St. Paul-Waterloo paiscnger train on 4lie Chicago, Hook l#laui <fc Pacific, detouring Monday on the Chicago & (heat \Vi4tern, went into the ditch one and a half miles north of Own Mountain. The ti>tal number of dead i? fort v-t lire*. Over thirty of injured resetted, Physicians in autonoohileB were rushed from Mar shulltown. Most of the eoHualitieu occurred in the chair ear. The train was a comdidatiou of the Twin City express from Chicago, and one of a similar name from St. 1/mis. The detour wan made necessary by the washout of a bridtfj 17 miles north of Cedar Rapids, at whieh point the trains were consolidated. Man Shot and Out. I.os Angeles, Cal., Special.?David Wilniot Dwyer, a wealthy ranchman, was found dead in a ranch house in (lie mountains. Part of his left side lunl been torn away by a ehargo of shot. The fiiroai was slashed three times and huge gashes were found all over the body; On the arias and le<js Ureal crosses were carved and some sharp instrument had left fantastic designs in the flesh ubovc the breast. Dwyer, who was 37 years old ami married, owned the ranch and lived there. The room in which the body lay showed no evidence of a struggle. Dwyer had been dead about 24 hours. Relatives of the dead man said that he and his father had become es tranged ^oine time ago. Relatives say it is a case of suicide. Detec tives are seeking for murder clues. Pensions For President's Widows. Washington, 1). C- SponinJ.?The senate committee on pensions has acted favorably cn hills to uraul infu sions of ,$5,000 a year t?> Frances Folsotn Cleveland, widow of ex-prcs id?Jit (Ji'over Cleveland, and Mary Lord Harrison, widow of ex-president Benjamin Harrison. The committee declined to report a hill to placc cx prCsidcnts of the United States on the retired list as commander in chief of the army and navy and give them $10,000 a year for the re mainder of their lives. Negro Farm Colony Started. Decatur, Alii., Special.?A negro farm colony is being started in Lime stone county and already n number of negroes have purchased forty-acrc farms and have located on them. Professor G. It. Bridgeforth, colored, of Hooker Washington's school nt> Tuskegee, some time ago purchased a tract of 700 acres of land in tho southern part of the country. It is the desire of Washington to give the graduates of his school a chance to own their own farms. Distinguished Lady Sponsor. Mobile, Ala., Special.?Commander ' in Chief Clement A. Kfvaiis, lias ' named Miss Lucy Davis Hayes as ' sponsor. for the Unite Confederate ' Veterans' reunion to be held in this ' city in April. Miss Hayes is tho second daughter of the late Mrs. Hayes, daughter of the only Presi dent of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis. Gapt. Klein's Confession. Pittsburg, Special.?District At torney Blakely at the opening of criminal count Monday made the statement that he had received the confession of "Captain" Johnny Klein and other " corroborative evi dence" regarding alleged copncil manic irregularities of 1008 and that he would proceed against the per sons named in Klein's confession. Supreme Oonrt Takes a Reces3. Washington, Special.?The Su- j preme Court of the United States has taken a recess until April 4. Train Took His Life. Bay St. Louis, Miss., Spe'cial.?The train for which he was waiting to . lako him to his children, whom he expected to bring back to BAy St. ? Louis with him after a long serra tion, struck and instantly killed Mar tin Bernard, 68 years old, who re cently came here from Beaumout, Texas. Killed at Sawmill. Scottsvllle, Va., -Special.? Wil lis Ashley, the manager of Edgebrcolf, the farm belonging to Dr. II. C. Beckett, and situated three miles in the country, was killed at Jolni McKinney's sawmill, by a piece of lumber thrown from the saw while in action, striking him over the right lung. Ocean of Whiskey. Lexington, Ky., Special.?A dis tillery at Burgin, near hw, ban sold 700 barrels of whiskey to n Cinr cinnati firm. The consideration be. tng approximately half a million dollars.-A-1-.- ? Tkt X#w York lam*sot Xsmtift* tion. New Yoitr, Sptcitl.?Superinten dent of Ipsnranee Hotehkiaa an nounced bia determination to get at the bottom of tb? mystery surround ing tho expenditure ^ $8^111 ky Elijah R. Kenuedy, who repreMntod the fire toagWtt* companies in look* ing after Albany legislation daring ihe Session in 1WL ? '? . "2. CANNON, SHORN OF BIS POWER, KEEPS OFFICII House Removes Him From Rules Committee, But Declines to Elcc'; a New Spoaker-"Resolutlon, Adopted 191 to 155, Provides For Ten Members to 80 Elected. Washington, I), c Aft$r IcivlngJ beaten Speaker Cannon on t?l< con secutive roll calls by majorities rang ing from seventeen to forty, And after throwing him off the Committee on Rules, which hail hoon the citadel of Ills power In tho House, tho Rflpphll c?n Insurgentsturhed squarely around and helped to glvo him a tremendous voto of confidence, which wna tanta mount to re-electing; him to the Speakership by a majority of thlrty hIx, ten more votes than tho majority bud given him npon his oloctlon to the place a'year ago. Only eight Insurgents voted against Mr. Cannon on tho last roll call, lly the other Insurgents the result Is re garded an a lpng stop toward har mony In tho Renubllcau party and the election of a Republican Noiiko next November. , Ry tho regulars it is openly hailed as u great victory for tho Speakor, and their rejoicing not only tilled the House with cheers, but yet resounding over} whero they meet. Tho Nortls resolution, providing for the election of an enlarged Com mittee on Rules on which the Sneaker should not he a member, after having been umended so as to avoid tho (11 vi rion of the House into groups, as at first nroj.oted. and maklntc the mem bership of the new commltieo ten In stead of iWle.an with election by the Hovito within tr t davs, was adonted by a vote of 191 to 15 5 after a long and cxcltlng day of roll calls and de bate. Then came a speech from Mr. Can non, In which ho declared that only two courses lay open to him?ono Was to resign. the other, to entertain a motion to declare tho Speakership vacant. Ho refused to resign, first, because it would cause a chaotic con dition In the House through the ne cessity of efiVetlng reorganization in mid-session, thereby, endangering the Imr.ortcnt Administration legislation, and, second, becauv.e resignation would be confession of either error or misdoing, neither of which ho would Adm*it. Po ho urged the new major ity to out Its furengTTr~lo tho teat, to show the courage of its convictions, I and submit the motion vacating the Speakership. I Mr. Norris, the insurgent leader, ! whoso alertness had brought about ilho possibility of administering the ! !*efrat to the Speaker, sought to have tho House adjourn, but, as has often happened when tho Republicans find themse'.vcs in a hole, a Democrat was fo?$id l.i the person of Mr. Burleson. r>* Texps, who was ready to help pull them out again. He had been found by Mr. Trfwney, rf Minnesota, the chairman of the Approprintionu Committee and a stanch Cannon puonorte.v He leaped Inio tha breach with the desired reso lution. and. despite tho etrenuous ef forts of the Insurgents to stop him *nd the obvious and onenly expressed hope of the Republicans that he would, go ahead, insisted on pressing it to a vote. \t was a highly emotional moment, find excited members from both sides )f the House crowded into the well, shouting and gesticulating, until at or.e tlm<? It looked from the gnllerles ?is though personal encounters must jurely occur. The Insurgents had no '.line io confer and settle their course, Insurgents Trapped Cannon, ?This was how the trap was laid for Cooaker Cannon and how ho Btcpped Into It: Mr, Crumpackcr, of Indiana, do-j itred to put In an amendment to the Census till. On calendar day tn the House?Wednesday?an Innovation nused by Representative Fitzger lid's amendment to tho rules was forced on Speaker Cannon by the In lurgents and Democrats. The use of calendar day to the average legislator ts that he has a chance of getting his bill before tho House, even If It is not liked by the Speaker, If he can get It reported from committee. Ever since :he Fitzgerald amendment was forced 3h tho regular organization repeoted efforts have been made by the or ganization to defeat its purpose. 0:i calandar day the amendment to tho Census bill was offered as a privileged measure under tho Consti tution. therefore taking precedence aver tho House rules. The Speaker ruled that the amendment was in Drder. An ap. ^al was made to the House, which overruled the Speaker, rhis-was done bccause tho Democrats ?nd insurgents recognised the fact that a direct attack was being made 5n calendar day, which was the only concession that they had been., able thus far to force from Cannon on tlift rules. Haclng accomplished this, on a roll j call tho Houbo meekly accepted the Crumpacker amendment as privileged matter, and everything looked lovely until Mr. Norrls, of Nebraska, insur gent Republican, arose, and, being recognlzcd, said: "Mr. Speaker, I present a resolu tlon made privileged by tho Consti tution." The Speaker hesitated a moment ?nd then answered: "If it Is a-resolution made privil eged by the Constitution, the eontle uan trill present it." Mr. Nbrrle then prevented the now (amottt resolution catling tor election 3f the Rules Committee by the House ind eliminating from the Rules Com mittee th^Speaker. ??? r i ... ?r? Mr. Dalzell. of Pennsylvania, was ?n bis feet in an instant with I make ? ??-----Jr.. . ' ? ?. - ? ? the point of ordor the> that Itr not I.** order. It Is not privileged." When Bpeakei'Cnnuon flrolly ry'.c 1 the Norrls motion out o? order he wr.8 ovefrulod, and then Ift* new resold* Hon formed a nrw Committee o-? Rtflcj, with iho (Speaker c.'xluf.C?* That-enledThe content. Alignment of Member?, At various tlmos In tho nfiern'toi forty-two Republicans voted ag^lrst (lip regular*, On the adoption of tho Norrls Bii.hf.t It ntc tho Insnree'its bored fortv-one, while on tho moMo/i t<? dor ore Sneaker Cannon the follow ing Republicans voted aye: Re:uxse*? tr.tlvf'i' Carr. Cooper. Lenroot an?1 Nelson, rf Wisconsin: Murrtook. o! Kiiu:tu?; Polrdftxte>i; of Washington: Cronus, of Korth Dakota, n:ul Davi.j and Lindbergh, of MllncTOte.. Tho othft',1 Insurgents showed tho Fincoriiy of their former t!eelaretlom ihot they were flatting agal:~t tho rule* clone. nnrt voted "no." Thofo who /.oiried tho Democrats on the larg er irtsuo wero Representatives Amen and Gardner, of Massachusetts: Bar hard and Crumimckor, of Indiana: Cary, Cooner, ,Kopn, Kustermanr, 1.enroot, NTorre, Nelson and Davld ron, of Wisconsin; Dawron, Goot*. Tlnipen, Hubbard, Kendall. Pickett ntvl WoodH, of Iowa; Davis, Lind bergh, Miller, Steenerson and Vol m e-id. of Minnesota; Fish, Foelker and Parsons, of New York: Fowler, or Nov/ Jersey; Oronna, of North Da kota; Norrin and Kitikald. of Nebrax ka: I JollingBworth, Howland, Jobn ron and Taylor, of Ohio; McLnughlln and Townsend, of Michigan; Murdock and Madleon, of Kansas; Poindexter, of Washington: Plumloy, of Vermont, and Martin, of South Dakota. On evnrry roll call tho coalition had a substantial majority, and It was I never In the slightest danger. Tho Democrats voted solidly throughout. TUT A H.\D POLITICIAN. Trying to Do night I?, After All, tho Host Politics. Rochester; N. Y.?In his address before tho Chamber of Commerce here President Taft mado an earnest appeal to Congress to subordinate and sacrifice individual opinions in order that tho measures he had rec ommonded In fulfillment of party pledges shall be enacted Into law. Tho President summed up the things which hn declared had caused Bouio of his advisers to characterize him as a bad politician. In the first nlace, ho i-ald, there was the tariff law, and a new Tariff bill always de feats a.party. In tho second place had como the corporation tax, bringing with it the enmity of evorybody directly or Indt roetly Interested in tho more than 4 00,000 corporations affected by It. In the third place, there was tho alleged postal deficit, which had been charged to the carrying of magazines and periodicals at ono cent a pound. That was "bad politics, because it ar rayed all the magazines and period icals against the Administration." In tho fourth place, Congress only reduced the duty on print paper thirty; per cent., instead of putting it on tho free list. This offended the news papers. And last of all, the Postal Savings Dank bill had turned all the bankers against the Administration. "So," he continued, "my friends don't jae just where wo are coming out. But I am confident In the end that the measures will .approve them*, selves, The troubles we most fear are those that never come. The meas ures that we promised ought to be adopted, not because they will give us political strength, but because they are right. And it they are right tho people will find them to be right, and that's the best politics in the end," DEATII STEERS AUTO. * Mayor Expires nt Wheel While OUi< ers Cliat Merrily. ? ,, St. John, Kan.?O. B. Shepherd, Mayor of St. John, died from heart disease at the steering wheel of hi* automobilo while speeding over thtf prairie. In the car with him were hie wife, his wife's sister and a Mr. Hor ner, a guest of the family. Mayor Shepherd had gone about eight pities and the occupants of the rear seat wero chatting merrily, when It was noticed that he was leaning over tho wheel 08 if looking at the front of the machine. "Look oat, dear," warned his wife; "the car is getting out of the road." Her husband made no answer. Then she examined more closely *nd found that he waa dead. Mrs. Shepherd screamed and the I other occupants of the car brought | it to a stop. Mr. S^e^herd's body was placed In a rear scat and brought back to town. I Barley Tobacco Sells High. A crop of hurley tobacco was sold on the Breaks, at Louisville, at an average price of 922.63, the highest figure oi the season. Chicago Holiday For Taft. The City Council of Chicago passed an order making March 17 a holiday 1n~haiior W TlHTfIslt of President Tafv, Peath After Ti^taeaft " Virginia B, Vogelius died of spinal meningitis follpwmg treatment at the New York Olty FJitetir Institute. ? QUte Kevenuo $10 Alban/, N. Y.?Governor Hugbet tlgned Senator Hlll't bill providing that (ho tax rate of two cents on fttoeft transfer* shall bo on oach flOQ of face ?aloe Instead of on ench abare >f #100 of face value. - It itr?PUn>*?e4 tljat the taaaagc of tho bill frill add*, about $10,000 (lRlly to the Plato's I !?!**?*. 1 tfM-ilomito KIIII a Soi(liHPC^r?^ year# old, private ia thd HctplUl Oorpa, U. ?. X, rtW>B?i at Fort Douilai, UUb, vii afcot and klUad by Laura Yandarar, a wok at the fort. 8ha iraa arraatad ckarf?dirith murder. f ^af'- ? V.n??,, ? Paa??t Crop Short. JSSKM;; South iodicato that atocka there-aina moca^aly clwad-up Ua??.a corx. ^r~ - ? ? ? ?? ..?< ? ?